SNPT Board & Councils

Board of Directors

The Friends of Channel 10 was founded in 1971 to provide financial, promotional, governmental and volunteer support for KLVX-TV. The Friends recruit volunteers for pledge drives, conduct special fund raising events, provide information to policy makers, apply for grants, assist with business operations of online adult education, and manage endowment funds for public television. In 1999, the Friends decided to restructure the board to assist KLVX with the federally mandated conversion to digital television. The 25 member board was renamed Southern Nevada Public Television (SNPT) restructured to include several councils with up to twenty members. KLVX-TV, Channel 10 also rebranded itself as Vegas PBS.

Community Council

The Community Council oversees traditional volunteer activities and special event fundraising. The council recruits and trains over 1,000 volunteers who will assist Vegas PBS during the year. Special events such as the annual wine tasting and auction, visits by PBS celebrities, and ticket sales for VIP events at facility openings are major activities of the Community Council.

Tom Axtell, General Manager, Vegas PBS

Myram Borders, Community Volunteer

Charlotte Hill, Carlisle Collection - Chair

Jeanne Jones, Alpha Services NV

Albert Kovacs, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Marydean Martin, Marydean & Associates

Peggy Smith, Hands Ink Advertising/PS Media

Irene Vogel, Community Volunteer

Planned Giving Council

ThePlanned Giving Council focuses on major gifts to the station. Members present ten public seminars a year on a variety of planned giving topics and provide free services for individuals planning major gifts to Vegas PBS. The Council produced programs and short informational messages for broadcast on Vegas PBS on a variety of personal financial planning information. To date 100 individuals have indicated they will donate over $36 million to the Vegas PBS Endowment through testamentary bequests.

Planned Giving Council

Tom Axtell, General Manager, Vegas PBS

Robert Bolick, Durham Jones & Pinegar

Shannon Evans, Evans & Associates

Candace Johnson, Gerety & Associates

Jason Oshins, Wealth Strategies Group

Matthew G. Pfau, Parry & Pfau

David A. Straus, Law Offices of David A. Straus, LLC

Scott W. Taylor, Piercy, Bowler, Taylor & Kern

Geraldine Tomich, Marquis Auerbach Coffing - Chair

Shawna Waldman, Raymond James

Kim Walker, Kim Walker, Inc.

Jeff Grandy, Major Gifts Officer, Vegas PBS

Legislative Relations Committee

The Governmental Affairs Council assists Vegas PBS with local, state and federal governmental relations.

Subject to the lobbying prohibitions of CPB, Council members review legislative and governmental policy affecting Public TV, update officials on station services supporting public education, public health and public safety.

Tom Axtell, General Manager, Vegas PBS

Nancy Brune, Guinn Center for Policy Priorities – Chair

Carolyn Edwards, Clark County School District Trustee

Thomas Gallagher, Guinn Center for Policy Priorities

Stephen J. Greathouse, Community Volunteer

Sandi Herrera, Got Core Values

Charlotte Hill, Community Volunteer

John Restrepo, RCG Economics LLC

Desert Meadows Area Health Education Council

The Desert Meadows Area Health Education Council serves as the advisory board for a broad-based career education and continuing professional education service. The Council’s role is to set educational priorities and advisee on marketing strategies. AHECs were authorized by Congress and are established in selected communities by each state’s land grant university. The Vegas PBS GOAL online adult education service agreed to perform these services in Southern Nevada in 2014, and receives a federal sub-grant for operations and staffing from the University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine.